Fantastic, is much less interesting!

"In this I owe a debt to G.K. Chesterton, who pointed out on many occasions that the fantastic, when looked at properly, is much less interesting (and a lot less fantastic) than the everyday.

Take Magical lights, for example, A wizard snaps his finger and light appears. Where's the fun in that? He's only doing what wizards do. But a bunch of apes weren't doing what apes do when they learned, over half a million years, how to take the universe apart and put it together again so that a bit of it was now th electric light bulb."
-Terry Pratchet, The Art of the Discworld

I was thinking about something along the same line (or just similar) as the above today. As my departure day is getting closer, I was looking at my bookshelf with regret that there are lots and lots that I should have read and again I'm going to leave all these books behind, unread, in my library and go to another place, with yet bigger libraries that I won't be able to read even one thousandth of it during my whole life.

For a second I wished I could learn it all in ein augenblick, something similar to what people were doing on-board the Nebuchadnezzar (remember Trinity learning how to pilot a helicopter?). But again I thought, where would the fun be in knowing that much, in learning everything in an instant? I think, the greatest joys of life come not from the things you've always known, but they come at the moments when you understand or realize something that you've been trying to understand for sometime. All the adventure, the excitement and everything is in the pursuit of knowledge, the knowledge by itself is perhaps just boring!